The imperative of economic growth should not be an afterthought. It must be job one!

Do you feel that the government should get out of the way and let America return to strength by:
1. Produce more American energy
2. Expand American trade
3. Modernize our regulatory system
4. Reform our immigration and visa policies
5. Address the fiscal crisis with a bold plan that slows the growth of runaway spending, reforms entitlement programs, and overhauls our tax code

I don't like the phrasing of the immigration reform possibilities because it leaves everyone the opportunity to fill in the blanks with regard to what Americans feel is the right kind of reform. When people were for reform, it didn't include all the changes that the current administration is pushing, nor did it include to allow for massive influx with the burden being dumped on the American people. Folks be cautious when responding because the media and administration is misrepresenting your sentiment.

I want government out of the way. How do any of these points get government out of the way? Don't they require ever MORE useless, ineffective, costly, burdensome laws and regulations, expanding government interference in the economy? It will be painful, for many, but necessary to temporarily contract the economy by refusing anymore government spending, reducing taxation. Only then can the economy expand in a real sustainable way. Expansion built on debt is not expansion that is sustainable.

in a bad economy, like we have now, it is essential that the govenment create jobs. When people aren't working there is little demand for goods and services and corporations and businesses cannot afford to hire employees if there is no one buying their goods and services. Demand creates jobs. With no demand, there is no jobs. The only entitiy left to create jobs is the govenment. Government can and should create public works and infrastructure jobs now! Why are Republicans fighting economic recovery?

Thomas Jefferson said A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Do we have that today? I think not.